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EspañolThe communion of love of the divine persons – the Trinity – is the image and likeness of the communion of persons in a family. In this eternal relationship, we must seek light and strength for each of the relationships that originate within a family.
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“Today we can add that the Trinity is present in the temple of marital communion.” (The Joy of Love, n.314)
Commentary
The family is a reflection of the Holy Trinity. The “We” of the Triune God is the original and radical referent of the “we” of marriage and the family. It reflects a God who is not solitude but a communion of persons, in which love is the foundational element. Only through love can God have created men and women free, with the capacity to say no to him; it is the mystery of freedom that can lead to the mystery of sin. God knows best! He asks for the freedom and gratuitousness of our love of correspondence. A “love” that is forced, coerced, imposed is of no use to him because that is not love but submission and slavery.
Each family that lives, the fidelity and communion proper to the persons who are part of it reflects the Trinitarian love for human beings, man and woman: as spouses, fathers and mothers, children and siblings, grandparents, and grandchildren. Our most intimate identities are bonds of love that shout to the world that the union of love is possible in marriage and the family. Moreover, the source of their intimate truth, trust and companionship, as well as their procreative fruitfulness, resides precisely in loving each other.
